Today as scheduled was meant to be the family day out, a fun filled adventure where invaribly we all go our sepearate directions and spend vast amounts of cash on something no doubt pointless or entertaining for a meager amount of time.
The Choice:- Milton keynes.
For those who dont know, MK as it is often appriviated to is a large town in Buckhamshire residing in the south east of england (East anglia). Roughly about 45 miles away from London.
It was apparently formally designated a town on the 23rd of January 1967 with the goal of becoming a city hence massive continuious Urban creep.
The most intriguing concept of this town is that all the roads are laid out in a grid with roundaboust co-joining (is that a word?) the horisontal and vertical grids every 1km or so.
It is also where our local IKEA is located.
Though male and by all accounts retarded in the ways of fashion and interior design I do enjoy a trip to IKEA as they have wonderful show rooms and as an alterior motive I would have liked to scope out a new bed. The put me up is two years two old now and I worry I will one day fall through it. This is mind i agreed to tag along thinking the day would be over fairly fast as I am not one to shop, It kills me alittle inside every time when there is something you want but cannot have or dont dare spend money on. Its headache inducing heh.
So off we trotted, discussing possible plans to sell my beloved truck for a much more manageable and less expensive Ford Focus, God bless this litte hatchback thats a dream to drive. Problem is I have to apparently wait for my tax to run out on Bea' before even thinking of selling, but thats by the by.
The first issue to crop up on a growing list was that IKEA was just far too busy, we couldnt even park, figures on a bank holiday weekend right? so there is my reason for coming out gone in a blink of an eye. I now have to spend several hours wandering shops when I could have been catching up on university work. Irratating yes but I can deal. Its a chance to buy some video games or whatever else takes my fancy. Nooope, problem there. I dont really have the money to spend on such frivalties so this is rather a wasted trip.
A bugger that really?
Regardless of such adversity I pressed on to the MK center Or the Hub, a giant shopping center with many many high street shops and so forth. I KID YOU NOT, hell has nothing on this place during rush shopping hours. Now not all hope is lost kids! Though down, I was not out and managed to have a good day.
Now I used to go the the Hub alot with my naval mate Ryan where we would simply circuit the building.
A pretty easy thing to do as what is known as the midsumer place is a semi circle allowing you to make it a nice neat lap. During this I would note shops I like the look of, on the second lap I would enter a few and check out items on interest.
On this particular outing I had a few 'Pit stops' in HMV for the cheap dvd options going ( Infact I ended up buying three dvds and a book from here before leaving ) as well as Game and other such shops when I bumped into my ex sitting on a bench outside Levi's jeans. Not nessicarily big news however this particular young lady seemidly hates me. Last time we met I distinctly remeber her referring to me as a douche and a know it all. Undeterred I wandered past and pulled a silly face before waving hello, Surprisngly this won me a smile, skirting past I couldnt help but think to myself that perhaps though women can hold grudges, I have a longer memory for them. Oh well one less hatred aimed at me in the world.
Moving on neatly onto my next topic I have to mention something that always draws my eye;
'The Frog Clock'
This little number amuses me so much I actually stop and stare, jaw agape untill the entire spectical is over. I love the simpleness of this attraction. It makes me feel like a child again. I seriously find myself rooted to the spot if I pass by it on the hour. its like a mental disease, Bubble tourettes syndrome!
All this fun and frolicks unfortunatly led into a bit of Drama as one of our crew lost her Ipod Nano which my parents graciously replaced to the sum of £118.00 pounds. Heres hoping she doesnt loose this one in another shoping center while out wiht us or we will be seriously out of pocket. Another mental break down easily resolved was exchanging a computer game at GAME, both my sister and father decided to buy Sims 3 and being the dutiful son I try to be I sorted the situation and exchanged one game for a wii game with an added extra five pounds on top though I could have sworn I should have recived a penny change.
Next on the list of events came my first ever frapachino. Im an art student there for poor, I am an art student who is lazy thus even poorer so I havent had the chance to try this delicious treat, I am now contemplating forgoing lunch at University simply to buy one of these things every day during the warm weather, I was quite honestly surprised at how nice it was. YUM.
Another contemplaton the Ipod affair managed to sort out for me is the Iphone.
From the beguining I have always been skeptical of apple products, yes they are sleek, ye sthey dont get virus's but its amasing how they always seems to give up the ghost once the warrenty is voided or at an end. However I am slowly coming around the the Iphone. I admit its gimicky and theres alot of its aspects I really would not use but concerning what I do, having a device that can text, make phone calls, use a form of instant messaging, send emails, access the internet and play music is quite tempting.
Since I am rather undecided heres my pros and cons list:
Pros -
Easy to use size, manageable, working phone, touch pad gimic, built in ipod, ability to amuse me, pretty interface, email and net access, Aol.
Cons -
Confusing interface, No java or flash, Too many god damn apps, prone to breaking, touch pad keyboard is a tad small.
Im not a huge techy so admitidly a smart phone is a daughnting prospect but something draws me to this lil pieice of merchandise and the Apple store practically sold it to me on a silver platter. The Iphone is sold on O2 tarriff ( my preferred choice for mobile networks ) for cheaper than in the actual O2 store.
So for 30 pounds a month and paying £99 pounds I could have a perfectly serviceable 8 gb Iphone Gs for 24 months. Ive I decided to pay an extra fiver I would have it for free! now thats a very important word -Free- as there is not much in life that is free and while that seems a better offer paying 100 quid upfront would save me £2 pound a month, aint that some fine fun mathematics for you? ( Dont blame me if it works out wrong i have always sucked at Math ) So perhaps in a years time for my birthday I will upgrade and finally become part of the Ipod generation.
Thankfully my day has come to a delightful closing statement. My sisters boyfreind came over for tea and as a treat we decided to go eat in the pizzarea down the road in dead mans cross. Delightful name I know. I used to know it as an indian resturant so this was an intriguing concept as I dont think the owners had changed hands. Much as expected the place was deserted but in a strange turn of events the serving staff went to my old high school so much conversation was had along with laughs, slightly abusive jokes and pudding. I personally rate the place at 5 stars. Thought I'd rate the pizza at 3..
Fun day.
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